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You have been hearing rumors that people are using company time to "surf" the 'net and to conduct personal business on the company Internet system. You have heard in the news and from your HR people that problems can occur if people are either accessing pornography or other work inappropriate sites. Also, e-mails are going out to unintended recipients - salacious jokes or other comments that many would find offensive and are clearly inappropriate in the work place. The current policy is to treat the computer like a telephone, which is to say there is an assumed "expectation of privacy" where what one does on the computer is confidential. The question is whether that should in fact be the policy or whether, in light of these recent events, there should be a more restrictive policy in your department.

Be Reasonable

-Compare and contrast at least two options, preferably three. Choose one option which we intuitively believe is the right answer and then choose another with which we disagree or which is a close second. As we work through the four lenses, we will find words to support our first choice or discover that another option is in fact preferable.After brainstorming with the leadership team, you have identified four options:

-Make no change in the departmental policy and take no action.

-Have a department wide information program that would remind people about the rules for inappropriate use of the Internet. This option would reinforce permission for occasional, limited, appropriate use of the computer if the use does not interfere with the user's work performance. This option would cost about $1,000 in printing costs and lost productivity.

-Institute a policy which provides that hourly and non-exempt employees may only use the system for e-mail and Internet use for personal reasons during lunch, before and after work, and while on breaks. Install a program on the system for tracking Internet use for those employees. This option would cost the department $6,000 for the software and $1,000 per quarter for employee time for tracking e-mails.

-Install a program on all computers which would allow e-mails and Internet use to be tracked for all employees. Send an e-mail telling people that the system has been installed and that inappropriate use will result in termination. This option would cost the company $6,000 for the software and $2,000 per quarter for employee time for tracking e-mails.In three to four coherent paragraphs, compare and contrast your options using the Responsibility Lens. In the process, consider the following questions:

-Motive: What are the reasons that the ethical agent would choose these options?

-Universalizability: Can everyone use these reasons for acting in choosing what to do?

-Reversibility: Are we willing to have someone else use either of these reasons how they treat us (reversibility)?

-Prior Agreements: Are we treating people the way they have freely consented to be treated? Are we treating them as means to my ends or with dignity, as ends in themselves?

-General Expectations: How does this option meet the general expectations of duties in our community?

In three to four coherent paragraphs, compare and contrast your options using the Results Lens. In the process, consider the following questions:

-Influence Factor: Given that different stakeholder groups are affected in different proportion, determine the impact that the decision will have on various groups?

-Criteria for Happiness: What are the criteria for happiness for the various stakeholders? In considering the criteria, determine what options may be "deal breakers" and what factors might be "tipping points."

-Units of Happiness: How many "utils" of happiness do each option provide to each stakeholder?

-Greatest Good: Determine which option creates the greatest good for the greatest number of people.

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